AHEAD Of Edo Polls: Oyegun Explodes, Blasts Tinubu & Oshiomhole

We won't allow scallywags and moneybags to hijack our party.

APC Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun explodes, reacts to Tinubu:

"Governor Oshiomhole is behind the call by Tinubu to remove me as Chairman. He accuses me of not doing enough for his governorship candidate. And I told him I am not happy with his style of politics. I am not in support of imposition because APC started the campaign against godfatherism. I am from Edo state and I am the national chairman of APC, I don't like the way Oshiomhole manipulated Godwin Obaseki to emerge as Governor and Philip Shuaibu as Deputy Governor for the party in this election.

Other party leaders are not happy too. He forced these candidates on the party and we have to manage it well otherwise the party would have evaporated after the Edo primaries.

Governor Oshiomhole took his ill-conceived campaign. against me to Tinubu after the Kogi supreme Court ruling in favour of the governor our party brought out against some Tinubu's candidate. We are in a new democratic order and we won't allow scallywags and moneybags to hijack our party.

I cannot force Oshiomhole's candidate on the party and on the people. Ondo is a different case entirely.".

BUHARI'S ‘ChangeBeginswithMe’ campaign suffer a Major setback

NIGERIA’S PRESIDENT BUHARI IN FRESH PLAGIARISM SCANDAL OF OBAMA’S SPEECH
-Premium Times reports
President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘Change Begins with Me’ campaign suffered a setback Friday following a newspaper report that the president allegedly plagiarised President Barack Obama in the speech he delivered while launching the project.
The government says the campaign will help curb “widespread act of immorality” by Nigerians.
The report, which detailed how Mr. Buhari allegedly lifted quotes from a 2008 speech by Mr. Obama, came on the heels of another damaging allegation that the ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign contained elements belonging to another anti-corruption effort, ‘Not in My Country’.
Mr. Buhari on September 8 launched the ‘reorientation’ campaign in Abuja as part of his government’s strategy to make Nigerians eschew “dishonesty, indolence, unbridled corruption and widespread impunity” and embrace daily introspection over their “immoral” conducts.
He also used the occasion to sue for national consensus amongst Nigerians on issues ranging from spirit of service to patriotism.
“We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long. Let us summon a new spirit of responsibility, spirit of service, of patriotism and sacrifice, Let us all resolve to pitch in and work hard and look after, not only ourselves but one another.
“What the current problem has taught us is that we cannot have a thriving army of rent seekers and vested interests, while the majority suffers,” Mr. Buhari said.
But facts have emerged indicating Mr. Buhari did not author those quotes.
Adeola Akinremi, a columnist with Lagos-based THISDAY Newspaper, was the first to spot possible instances of plagiarism between Mr. Buhari’s speech and a speech delivered by Mr. Obama when he was first elected in 2008.
In a speech delivered after his victory on November 4, 2008, Mr. Obama said to a crowd of enthusiastic supporters:
“Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
“So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other. “Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.”
After highlighting the seeming plagiarism, Mr. Akinremi said the act was “unethical” and lampooned Mr. Buhari for allegedly indulging in it.
“It is immoral to plagiarize other people’s work, but even worse to use dishonesty to launch a campaign about honesty.
“When you use another person’s work without acknowledgement, you have plagiarized. You simply pretend as if it is your own. It is unethical. It makes a mess of the campaign from the start. That is what Buhari has done, nobody will believe in the ‘change begins with me’ campaign, because it was built on lies,” Mr. Akinremi said.
When contacted Friday morning, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said he was just becoming aware of the allegation and that the presidency would investigate.
Mr. Akinremi’s column was published a week after associates of Akin Fadeyi, creator of ‘Not In My Country’ accused the Buhari administration of stealing his concept to launch ‘Change Begins with Me.’
The associates said Mr. Fadeyi, a creative artist and former head of communications at Airtel Nigeria, met with the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, in December 2015 to intimate him of ‘Not In My Country,’ an episodic narrative that deploys humour to underscore societal ills and appeal to Nigerians to shun sharp practices.
They said Mr. Mohammed declined interest in the concept, only to turn around to adapt it for ‘Change Begins with Me’ campaign.
But Mr. Mohammed denied the allegations, saying he started ‘Change Begins with Me’ before he was appointed minister.
“We started working on ‘Change Begins with Me’ before the honourable minister was nominated and we’ve been working with the agency that produced the campaign,” Mr. Mohammed’s associate said.
The ‘Change Begins with Me’ campaign had earned Mr. Buhari widespread criticism, with many Nigerians accusing him of shifting blames to them and wondering why they gave him their mandate if he would ultimately saddle them with the duty of effecting the change he promised.
But the government said the campaign became necessary to rally all Nigerians in the effort to cleanse the country of corruption and other malaise plaguing it.

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G: AS Crocodile Smile, Militants BLOW UP

Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Militants Blow Up NNPC Pipeline, Shaming 'Operation Crocodile Smile'

One of the militant groups operating in the oil-rich region of southern Nigeria, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), a militant group, says it has blown up a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NDPC, in Delta State.
The group confirmed this in a statement saying the attack occurred
in the early hours of Tuesday, September 13, 2016. The Nigerian
Petroleum Development Company, NDPC, is owned by the state-owned oil company in Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
“As a mark of our faith to totally grounding the Nigerian oil economy, the gallant “Opudo” strike forces brought down the Afiesere-Iwhrenene major delivery line in Ughelli North, leading to the UPS/UQCC operated by NPDC/SHORELINES at about 1am
today,” the militants claim.
“The Niger Delta is not a conquered territory and our people have never succumbed to intimidation before, rather we match force with the oppressor’s brutality.
“The Nigerian government should already know that the people of this part are not fools, who will not be able to see when they are being treated with disdain.”
The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate warned people around
oil facilities in the region to vacate their residence “if you love your lives”.
The police have not reacted to the latest attack.
The militant group has refused to accept the ceasefire declared
by the leading group in the region, the Niger Delta Avengers.

EXPOSED: How Boroh Lied, Defrauded Amnesty Program: 50 Stranded Student Cry!

"Boroh is pocketing a whopping sum of $700,000 in school fees for his ghost 20 ex-militants that he has fraudulently bloated to 70 delegates." - Ex-militants
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKSEP 12, 2016
Facts have begun to emerge on how the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Brigadier-General Paul Boroh (rtd), has been deceiving the people and allegedly amassing wealth from the PAP to the detriment of the region.

It would be recalled that a few days ago at a meeting in Abuja, Mr. Boroh informed some elders of the Niger Delta that 70 ex-militants, who, as part of the PAP, had been trained in underwater welding at the CDA Technical Institute of the West Indies in St. Kitts and Nevis, recently graduated and returned to Nigeria.

But an investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed that Mr. Boroh lied, as none of the ex-militants have returned from St. Kitts and Nevis. Furthermore, 50, not 70, ex-militants were discovered to have participated in the vocational training program sponsored by the PAP.

In a telephone interview with SaharaReporters, some of the stranded ex-militants at St. Kitts and Nevis disclosed that for about three months, they have been stranded, saying that they were all shocked a few days ago when they read an article from Sun Newspaper online in which the amnesty coordinator had told some elders of the region that 70 of them who went for the training had all returned to Nigeria fully equipped.

According to them, they are not 70, but 50 delegates, and none were provided with equipment, as stated by Mr. Boroh. They added that the amnesty office, the contractor and others who have been conspiring to defraud the country have raped Nigeria of about $700,000 in school fees from the non-existent 20 delegates.

"We the 50 ex-militants to the St. Kitts and Nevis arrived on December 26, 2015 due to some delays and here in St. Kitts and Nevis we spent over a month before we commenced the training on the 8th of February, 2016 and our program ended in July. Since then till date, we have been stranded and abandoned here with no food. Since July till date, none of us has gotten a single monthly stipend, even though we were each approved for a $500 stipend.

"Even the certificates issued to us just last week were not completed because our country has not done the needful. Barely a few months after Boroh was appointed, he has amassed wealth, defrauding the federal government billions of naira. Even N3 million for each ex-militant's kits and equipment for the training were never given to us. Now, Boroh is pocketing a whopping sum of $700,000 in school fees for his ghost 20 ex-militants that he has fraudulently bloated to 70 delegates," one of the ex-militants said.

Another stranded ex-militant who spoke with SaharaReporters disclosed that one Mr. Agama, owner of the firm Allstates Travel and Tour Limited and contractor handling the amnesty program, and one Mr. Lambert in the amnesty office in Abuja have continued to issue threats to the ex-militants in an effort to keep them quiet.

"We are dying here, journalist. Please help us with your pen. We have been abandoned here by the federal government and the amnesty coordinator [Boroh]. I can confirm to you now that as we are talking we the stranded 50 ex-militants here in St. Kitts and Nevis have hired the services of a lawyer in Nigeria who has written a series of petitions to relevant authorities about our plights," the ex-militant cried out.

A petition against the amnesty office and the contractor, addressed to the Office of President Muhammadu Buhari, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other relevant authorities and signed by the counsel to the stranded 50 ex-militants, S. Kelechi Nnadi, called for the immediate evacuation of the trainees and the prosecution of all those involved in the fraudulent and corrupt act.

The petition titled, "Sabotage Of The Amnesty Programme Of The Federal Government Of Nigeria, Fraudulent Conversion Of Money Earmarked For Training Of Amnesty Training/Delegates In St. Kitts and Nevis (West Indies) By Allstates Travel And Tours Ltd And Their Cohorts In The Amnesty Office," noted that the program was intended to last a year but was fraudulently shortened to six months.

"Indeed, funds were adequately provided for the said training of the 50 ex-militants which was scheduled to last for a period of one year. However, contrary to the clear stipulations contained in the contract papers, the trainees were enrolled for only six months rather than the one-year training agreed upon. The entire package for the training, including payment of monthly stipends of $500 per person, feeding, accommodation, tuition, certificate cost, transportation, medicals, etc., was made available to the contractor.

"A preliminary check at the amnesty office in Abuja clearly reveals that there exists some level of conspiracy between some officials of the amnesty office and the contractor to corruptly enrich themselves. And the amnesty office, through one Mr. Lambert, has continued to issue all manners of threats to the 50 ex-militants, our clients, to use the Nigerian soldiers to shoot them upon their arrival to Nigeria and also delist their names from any payroll, for agitating for their entitlements in the amnesty package as approved by the federal government during their training in St. Kitts and Nevis," Mr. Nnadi stated.

The petition further stressed that apart from the international and diplomatic embarrassment the situation is already causing the country and the entire West Indies, the sincerity of the federal government and the presidency in its commitment to the amnesty program in the Niger Delta is also called to question should the felons be allowed to retain their looted wealth.

As at the time of filing this report, all efforts to reach the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Paul Boroh, proved abortive.

"A House Divided Against Itself" Aisha Takes A Swipe on Buhari...

Aisha Buhari tackles husband on economic recession...
President Muhammadu Buhari had on several occasions said the constitution does not recognize the office of the first lady.
He’s right. His wife, Aisha Buhari, would have occupied
that ‘office’, if Buhari had towed the path of previous presidents.

Aisha Buhari works with many NGOs in the north to alleviate poverty and support girl child education.
It was during one of such meetings which held yesterday (Saturday) at a skill-acquisition center for training women that she took a jab on her husband. The location was Katsina State and the event was part of her ‘Future Assured’ project in conjunction with the National Directorate of Employment.

Hear her: “My ‘Future Assured’ program believes strongly in empowering women.
“This will increase their household income and in the long run will bring about inclusive growth in the
economy.
“It is our sincere expectation that this effort will strengthen the hands of our women towards becoming major players in the economic development of our country.
“I have no doubt in my mind that when economically empowered, women in Nigeria would contribute
significantly to the diversification of our national economy.”
Then Aisha went for the jugular: “Unfortunately, we are at a time when the economy of the country is
experiencing great challenges.

“The leadership must retrace it steps and do the right thing.
“On this note, all hands must be on deck for us to salvage our nation,” Aisha said to the consternation of
the crowd.

This is not the first time Mrs. Aisha Buhari is taking a public swipe on her husband. During her twitter brawl with Ekiti State Governor, Aisha had described President Buhari as a 73 years old man. She obliquely described him as not having enough energy, but that she possesses same.
That tweet was hurriedly deleted after she came under attacks by the presidency.